The legitimacy of the state is also very much determined by how the state responds to what is happening the society.

Amid the effort to fight Covid-19 and raised hopes in the face of uncertainties in early 2021, our two governance indexes have dropped. They are the Corruption Perception Index and the Democracy Index.

Neither shocking nor surprising but certainly a cause for concern. Indonesia\'s Corruption Perception Index has dropped from a score of 40 (on a scale of 0-100) in 2019 to 37 in 2020.

Indonesia\'s score in the 2020 corruption perception index fell by three points from 2019. The decline, the second since 1999, should serve as a warning in efforts to eradicate corruption in the country.